Percy Jackson
He had two hundred dollars it wasn't much, but it was one hundred and ninety-eight dollars more than what he had. He knew that staying in the Arlington was dumb they would find him and arrest him. Perhaps he could make his way to phoenix it was a populous city, and he could keep his head down and get some job collect enough money to leave Arizona. But that day was too far away but first things first he needed to leave Arlington.
Phoenix was thirty mile from Arlington if he took a bus he could reach it in two hours, but then he may not have enough money to eat, and so he decided to walk all the way to phoenix it would take a day or two, but he would save a lot of money. So he began by buying some cooked bacon and some grilled cheese sandwich four one litre water bottles and in total he spent around fifteen dollars.
With that he began to walk in rough direction of the city. Looking back he did not regret anything that bastard Williams had torn the only picture of his mother apart, and he would smash the boy's head once more if the picture could be restored, but it lay torn apart in that bastard's piss.
" Fuck the whole lot of them " , he murmured to himself
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He had managed to reach city within a day and half which was surprising and well now that he had reached the city he had no idea what he was going to do. One thing was clear that any person would recognise him as homeless his clothes were torn and were not in very good shape and his shoes were dirty. But if he could manage to get a job as a paperboy he could get some money and eat a little well until he could find something more. The pay of paperboy was pitiful a dollar a month for a house, and he did not have funds enough to sustain himself that long. Well he would need to try something that he had not tried since he was six. He was going to steal. He was pretty bad at picking pocket's, but he could steal some things from supermarket and stores.
He hated it. It was not the right thing to do not something that Heracles, Achilles or Theseus would do. He remembered those bedtime stories his mother would tell him. He smiled at the memory. His favourite ones were of Greek myths. They felt real to him.
But what ever they may or may not do it held little importance to his current circumstances. He needed to steal to not go hungry and to remain independent.
Walking to the entrance of supermarket he took a deep breath in and walked into the store. Inside there were Lots of things, but he knew that if he tried to steal something big he would be caught, and so he began looking for small things. In the end he pocketed some jelly and a bar of chocolate while he bought some fruits to check out.
In the end he was successful.
" Thank god ", he said after he walked into a dark alley way. Taking deep breaths
He had managed to steal sweets and chocolates worth around 8 dollars and had also brought himself some fruits which cost him around 3 dollars. He had planned on selling the sweets to kids in exchange for money, and He hoped this way he could at least stay afloat in the city for some time.
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( Two years have passed )
He had managed to gather enough money and now had left phoenix. It was not much but stealing and part-time jobs had made him a thousand dollars in two years. Now in his possession there were three pair of pant and hoodies, two pair of sneakers, A pen knife , A Swiss army knife, A toolset , Several diaries and four expensive pens in addition to cash which was around a thousand dollars.
He had wanted to stay in Phoenix longer, but he had decided to leave after he had seen a one eyed man staring at him that in itself would not be suspicious. He after all did not have parents and well any good citizen who had paid attention to him would be concerned for him. But the man had a feral look in his eyes and he had seen him lick his lips several time wondering if he was imagining eating him and just for a second he had thought that the man had a single eye in middle of his head. It had sent shiver's down his spine and he had decided to take his leave. Last time he had seen such things was when his mother was killed though at that time it had not been a guy with eyes in middle of his head instead it had been some kind of demon which spat fire like a dragon. No one had believed him, but he remembered that moment all too well, and he knew he was not mad or at least believed that he was not mad.
His mother though had taken it what he saw seriously and that was a reason why they had left New York for central states not staying at one place for long always moving. His mother had suffered so much for him. Doing all sorts of odd jobs to keep them from being hungry.
Well he was going to follow his mother's foot steps but this time instead of going west he would be going east he wanted to see new places. He licked his lips he wanted to see Louisiana and Mississippi and to head there he would need to cross New Mexico and Texas.
He looked back and saw the same man following him. He quickened his pace. If he kept in sight of people there was not much that man could do and so he kept himself in the crowd. Heading towards the bus station hoping he could lose the man following him if he managed to catch a bus before him.
Seeing that there was a bus which was almost full he suddenly started sprinting towards it now he would know for sure whether the man was following him or not and if he managed to catch a bus he was sure the man would lose his trail.
Just as he took to sprint the man also began to sprint. His heart started thumping. He jumped onto the bus at just the last minute while the man lost him. He looked at the man and once again saw him with his one large eye in middle and he somehow knew that today he had been very lucky.
SO GUYS PLEASE DO LEAVE A REVIEW IT WOULD MEAN A LOT TO ME. I DO NOT LIVE IN AMERICA SO ERR I DO NOT HAVE MUCH IDEA OF THE PLACE HENCE WELL DO NOT WELL GO ON GOOGLE TO SEARCH THE DISTANCE'S CAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN PICKED WELL BY ME.
AND YES WELL ERR UM AH
I HAVE TAKEN THE TIME LINE TO AROUND 1990s
SO percy jackson would be eleven in 1993 in my fic
any suggestions would mean a lot thank you for reading